Hi All-Noob. Stagea M35

[matt13b]

Hi all. I just bought this Stagea today.

http://www.tradingpost.com.au/Automotive/Used-Cars/Small-Medium-Family-Prestige-Cars/AdNumber=D4020102402514

I don't know much about them being a rotary enthusiast, but I have a wife with a baby on the way and couldn't do a Camry.

Forgive me as I just signed up and will be reading all the information in the threads below in due course, but for now I wonder where you guys insure your Stagea's?

Where do you service them, and where would you recommend I go to have the car looked at to see if all is ok?

It has IMPUL and NISMO stickers in the engine bay and seems to "woosh" through whole rev range. It also has a boost controller so I assume something has been changed or do they all woosh the whole time?

[Brick]

Nice car mate. There is definitely a few non standard things on it. Twin exhaust being one that stands out. Thewe cars have a single exhaust standard. Inpul also can mean you have stuff like a remapped ecu. But even standard they have a fair bit of go.

Now the maybe bad bits. I bought my car from ginza the guys are dodgy for sure. The guy who does there approvals for Australia doesn't do a lot of stuff. Make sure he has Changed your tyres as that's something I caught them out on and made them replace. They also don't do any servicing so make sure you get it a very good full service. If you bought his warranty make sure you contact the provider cause with me he threw it in to close the sale but then never logged it meaning I wasn't actually covered.

Hope this has helped but yeah very nice ride hope to see it around

Josh

[matt13b]

Thanks mate. Car was advertised for 18 and I said I'll do 15 with one year warranty.

I also had a look under it and said what it that exhaust doing attached to nothing? Not a fan. So he said he will remove it today.So that's gone.

He seemed to know less than me which is always a worry. He said it was a twin turbo and even I know it isn't.

It has these strange badges though. It says infinity across the rear and it has an infinity front badge and also says ARX-Axis in the back.

I can't see any reference to Axis model cars on the net so far?? Any idea??

[richzx]

The photo's and description don't match at all. THe photo's look like a later model than 2002 stagea particulalrly the headlights etc. Very strange. Have you paid for it?

[Brick]

Axis is a model.

And yeah I got him down a fair bit also

All those badges have been added on hopefully you can get them off with out damage it will look better then.

So the second tip isn't connected?

[matt13b]

No the exhaust was purely aesthetic. So it is no longer there.

It seems the Japan owner has put newer model parts on such as the front bumper and mirrors with indicators on them. That's what it seems like to me.

The car itself seems to run and sound fine but I am keen to book it into a work shop somewhere and have it serviced and assessed asap.

Do you guys have a preferred place you service your Stagea's?

[matt13b]

Yes it's paid for.. Hopefully it was a reasonable price ($15k) for this model which seems to be in very good condition. It has 72k km's on it..

[Brick]

I do it myself. You can also hit up Jetwreck on here. The guy is the man in Sydney for m35s. Not sure if he does much in the way of servicing but I would recommend him to you as far as someone to have a look at it

[matt13b]

Great thanks. I'll look him up.

Do you know what this Axix/Infintiy model is?

[Brick]

Not fully sure the difference of the axis is sorry. But yeah the infinity badges arnt standard just another thing the Japanese owner has done to look cool. Kind of like a chev badge on a commy

[matt13b]

Oh no..I hate Chev badges on Commys, like fake M3 badges! I don't mind original badges but why would you add them?!

[Brick]

People are stupid that's why. Just be aware when removing badges. The standard ones on our cars are fitted when the paint is still soft so sometimes you will end up with raised lines around the badge. Shouldn't be an issue with the after market ones.

[matt13b]

Cool will do thanks.

Who do you insure with?

[Brick]

Nrma. Insured for 15k low excess and I'm under 30 cost me $1050 per year I think it is

[ironpaw]

LOL @ the "M35S" badge...

I think you need to take all the f**king badges off the car...

[M35]

Thats a PNM35, i dont think its arx, it looks like axis to me and whats with the badging overload?

[Dunc]

Thats a PNM35, i dont think its arx, it looks like axis to me and whats with the badging overload?

Nope, its an NM35 with PNM35 headlights. The VIN checks out for NM35. Its definitely an AR-X and should have the radar cruise control

[andy65b]

Agree with Dunc ^. ARX

It is a little confused that car.

The Impul if still fitted will most likely refer to the ECU. The Impul ECU does a few special things like remove the 180km/h speed limiter, remove any boost cut and adds a bit more fuel.

The Nismo S tune sticker could be Nismo springs and shocks. If they are there, the springs are red in colour.

I notice there are a few things under the dash also.

The car is dead easy to service your self. Have a read of some of the sticky threads about servicing.

GL

[ChrisB]

if you don't want the Infiniti Front Grille I have the standard ARX Grille here for trade.

I suspect the front bumper bar would need to be changed at the same time.

If your interested, I'd consider a swap.

My coupe has an Infiniti grille so it would kinda match up nicely.

[nickcorr]

if you don't want the Infiniti Front Grille I have the standard ARX Grille here for trade.

I suspect the front bumper bar would need to be changed at the same time.

If your interested, I'd consider a swap.

My coupe has an Infiniti grille so it would kinda match up nicely.

Given that this car has had the series 2 front end fitted, better check with Cam, who did this swap previously, to find out if they are interchangable...

I do remember that this "simple" swap was a huge pain for him...